Ovate pebblesnail

Ovate pebblesnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Somatogyrus
Species: S. excavatus
Binomial name
Somatogyrus excavatus
Walker, 1906

The ovate pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus excavatus, is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States, and its natural habitat is rivers.

References

  1. Cordeiro, J. & Perez, K. (2011). "Somatogyrus excavatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 21 May 2014.


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